Symptoms of young-onset dementia have considerable overlap with those common in certain mental health conditions, such as ...

While dementia is much more common in older adults, hundreds of thousands of people are diagnosed with young-onset dementia ...

A single-celled microbe that revels in Earth's most hostile salt lakes has the remarkable ability to transform its mote of a ...

Ochre body paint may have been a form of prehistoric sunscreen that helped early humans survive a sudden increase in ...

Children's mattresses may be giving off chemicals associated with damage to the brain, according to new research – a ...

Have you ever wondered why you don't have thick hair covering your whole body like a dog, cat or gorilla does? Humans aren't ...

Earlier this year, scientists discovered a peculiar term appearing in published papers: "vegetative electron microscopy".

An unprecedented coral bleaching episode has spread to 84 percent of the world's reefs in an unfolding human-caused crisis ...

We know sleep quality is vital for good health, that adolescence is an important time for brain development, and that teens ...

A bad day and a dead end for a Cretaceous ant has parlayed into some pretty spectacular science some 113 million years later.

There are a lot of things in Earth's night sky, and every now and again, they line up in such a way to give us all a little ...

We all need a way to get along in this wild, wicked world, and a rare insect found only on a mountainside on O'ahu has found ...